Migrating from WLM to gWLM

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Feature WLM A.03.03 support gWLM A.04.00 support
Smoothing of metric data
available
Yes (cntl_smooth keyword) Yes—if WLM Toolkits are installed
(/opt/wlm/toolkits/oracle/bin/smooth)
WLM Toolkits Yes Yes—with customizations
SAP integration paper: Using HP Global
Workload Manager with SAP available
from http://docs.hp.com/en/vse.html
Workload monitoring (on the
command line and in a GUI)
Yes Yes
Events/alarms Event Monitoring Service (EMS)
HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
Events
Data collector started when a
configuration is activated
Yes No
No standard mechanism for starting a
data collector; however, you can use
gwlmsend to supply data
Policy/SLO storage
SLO data is stored in configuration
files on each node; identical SLOs are
cut-and-paste copies of an original
Policies are stored in a centralized
database; the same policy can be
applied to multiple workloads without
being replicated
Can export or import in XML format
Data source integration (DSI)
support, providing workload data
to OpenView tools including
OVPM
Yes Yes
HP-UX Security Containment
integration
Yes
No built-in integration; however, you
can integrate as explained in the section
“Integrating with Security Containment “
on page 31
Passive mode Yes Yes (Advisory mode)
Advisory mode is not available for HP
Integrity Virtual Machines, psets, or fss
groups